How Kannada is written
Kannada is spoken in Karnataka, India.
Kannada has its own script, closely related to Telugu’s. Tulu and Konkani speakers in coastal Karnataka often write in the Kannada script too, so a book in those languages can open as Kannada.
What to upload
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EPUB, DOCX, TXT, HTML, RTF, MOBI, AZW3 or FB2 with real Kannada text, up to 10 MB and DRM-free.
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PDFs need a text layer: a scan of printed pages without one has no text to read. Try selecting a line of Kannada in the PDF: if you can copy it, there is text to read.
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Keep the text as Unicode, as modern ebooks and word processors save it.
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No file? Paste a link to a web article and it becomes a book too.
From Kannada book to audiobook
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Drop your file above, or choose it. It opens in seconds.
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Book2Speech detects the book’s language from its text. If the book opens with the wrong language, for example because it starts with a long introduction in another language, choose Kannada as the book’s language in the app.
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Pick a narrator. Premium voices read Kannada: play a few samples and choose the one that suits the book.
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Press play. Chapters, read-along text, speed, a sleep timer and your place synced between devices work as in every other language.
What Beta means for Kannada
Kannada is one of our Beta languages. Premium voices read it well, but the sound varies more from one narrator to the next than in our 42 main languages.
So play a sample with two or three narrators before you start a long book, and keep the one whose Kannada sounds right to you.
Keep your Kannada audiobook
Choose Download audiobook and get one file with chapters, cover and book details, as M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV. Kannada books are narrated with Premium voices, so a download uses your plan’s Premium hours. Play it in Apple Books, any audiobook app or the car, offline.
Questions people ask
Can Book2Speech read Kannada aloud?
Yes. Kannada is a Beta language: Premium voices read it, and quality varies more by voice than in our 42 main languages. Drop a book and hear it in seconds.
Is Kannada narration free?
You can try it free: the Free plan includes 10 minutes of Premium voices, enough to hear your Kannada book. After that, Kannada needs a paid plan, from Listener at $4.99/month or $49.90/year. Standard voices, unlimited on every plan, read English only.
What if my Kannada book is detected as another language?
Choose Kannada as the book’s language in the app, and the narrator reads it as Kannada.
Can I download a Kannada audiobook?
Yes. Download audiobook makes one file with chapters, cover and book details (M4B, MP3, Opus or WAV), narrated with Premium voices from your plan’s Premium hours.